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Hear, hear.

Tribal DDB Amsterdam rejoins Phillips for “Obsession with Sound,” an interactive music experience that shows off the brand’s audio range. The campaign, which is live on the Facebook page, lets you listen to the Grammy-award winning Metropole Orchestra, and single out each musician to hear details of their individual tracks. Singling out a musician also gives you access to their musical tendencies, background and personal Twitter and blog feeds. The idea is to “hear every detail” — something that Phillips says its range of speakers can also achieve.

Alongside the campaign, there’s also a contest that challenges entrants to create their own compositions, which will then be judged by a distinguished jury. The winning track will be arranged and played by the Metropole Orchestra and recorded in a music video.

This follows a string of notable projects from Tribal DDB for Phillips, including the Cannes Grand Prix-winning “Carousel” and the ambitious “Parallel Lines” films.

The clues, arranged into rounds, have been calibrated to encourage group play. Round one starts Thursday — the first players to solve all the clues will be rewarded with Starbucks- and Lady Gaga-related prizes.

Matthew Guiste, director of global social media for Starbucks, anticipates that it will take players from one to several hours to complete each round. “We hope to encourage group play and sharing,” he says. “We wanted to make it so that there’s things to talk about and share.”

The game, says Guiste, was inspired by three things: Alternate reality games such as I Love Bees, digital scavenger hunts in the vein of Jay-Z’s Decoded book release game and puzzle play.

Rounds two through seven will take place on May 23, 25, 27 and 30, and June 1 and 3.

The May 23 round coincides with the release of Lady Gaga’s third studio album, Born This Way. Starbucks will commemorate the day both in its stores and online. Lady Gaga’s music, for the first time in Starbuck’s history, will be played in Starbucks stores on May 23. Her album will be also be sold in stores.

Gaga will take over Starbucks Digital Network for the day. The digital takeover will invite customers to stream a special edition of the new album for the entirety of the day, receive a free “Edge of Glory” download and watch an exclusive video by Lady Gaga herself.

For Starbucks, the scavenger hunt is meant to help the company build deeper relationships with its most engaged customers. It also sees the initiative as a way to connect the store — what Starbucks refers to as the “third place” — to Starbucks Digital Network, its content network and “fourth place.”

SRCH is also meant to pump up the volume on the brand’s Frappuccino focus for the summer. In planning, the brand, says Alex Wheeler, director of digital strategy for Starbucks, wanted to experiment with something alternative. “We thought, ‘How can we do something that is a little bit different and break through?’,” she says.

The Starbucks-Gaga connection is much less obvious, but Wheeler believes the digitally savvy brand and the edgy superstar have a lot in common. “It’s a natural fit,” she says.

Perhaps by fit she really means hit. Both Gaga and Starbucks will benefit — Gaga in album sales and exposure, and Starbucks in netting the allegiance of Gaga’s almighty Little Monsters.

Cadbury New Zealand has spent six months collecting the sounds of joy from across New Zealand, and is now turning them into a Glass and a Half Full production with the help of singer Bobby McFerrin. “Share the Joy” is a project aiming to create a song made entirely out of New Zealand’s sounds of joy. The campaign includes a number of experiential events, including a hand-clapping-powered Christmas lights show in Oriental Parade, Wellington, the launch of 25,000 rocket balloons at a Raggamuffins event in Rotorua, a giant sprinkler on Auckland beaches, a snow globe in Auckland in the lead up to Christmas, and huge beach balls with cameras inside to catch the joy. Bobby McFerrin’s concert on March 16 was another opportunity to capture interactive moments of joy from the crowd.

Click on the image below to play the Snow Globe video in YouTube (HD)

Click on the image below to play the Call for Entries video in YouTube (HD)